FOOD PARK

FOOD PARK F o o d E x p e r i e n c i n g - B a s e d Community Recreational & Amenity Infrastructure

MArch Thesis WANG Yizhe

1.Background 1.1.Declination of traditional food markets The thesis starts from looking into the phenomenon in mainland China that traditional food markets in the metropolises, so-called wet markets as well, are in the danger of gradual decline in recent years. Taking Beijing as an example, from 2014 to 2018, more than 10 food markets located in downtown area were demolished or transferred to the rural-urban area[1]. Looking into the cause of this phenomenon, On one side, due to the self-management problem, food markets are always regarded as dirty, chaos place, like a scar of a shining city, and not ran well to meet citizens’ demands . Facing with the rapid urbanization in these metropolises, the single functioned food market that only makes little profit cannot adapted to the high land price, so it’s easy for the government to make decisions to demolish these food markets to improve the image of city or to build up new gentrified shopping mall or supermarkets that can afford the land price.

On another side, with the Food E-commerce business rising in the mainland, the youngers used to be part of users of the traditional food market now are being split to Food E-commerce in recent years[2].

1.2.The significance of traditional food market

Back to the traditional food market, it provides with cheap and various fresh food and ingredients, so it’s more convenient to pick up several ingredients needed in a food market in one time (In Chinese cooking, one dish may made up of a large variety of ingredients to achieve the rich flavour and nutrition), and asking about price or bargaining verbally in food markets makes the relationship between people closer, in conclusion, the food market is never replaceable in citizens’ minds, either socially, culturally or economically, as a significant standard of daily life. People usually evaluate the comfortableness of a place to live by that if there is a food market nearby[3].

So the thesis questioned at first that facing the challenge, could traditional food market make some change adapted to the new situation?

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Two Years After Beijing Cutting off. (n.d.). [image] Available at: https://theinitium.com/project/disappearing_markets/

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2.Research 2.1. Investigation of prevailing situation of traditional food market To understand the real problem or situation of traditional food market in mainland metropolises, Shenzhen was chosen to be the field trip site.

First, I mapped out several well-known food markets in Nanshan, Shekou, Futian and Longgang District.

Discovered that food market are always related to urban village, in terms of geographical location, demography and economics. This is also demonstrated in several reports[4]. In the investigation, it is found that, Most food markets are located near the urban village, for example, Nanshan market, Shekou market, and Longgang Buji market, or right inside the urban village, like Huanggang market in Huanggang village, Shawei market in Shawei village. For the consumers (or buyers), these markets served for not only the residents in urban village but also those living nearby attracted by cheap price of food.

For the sellers, most of them are originally farmers from other cities around, and choose to rent a stall in food market as their first start-up business. “In terms of social fusion, food market is good for the fusion of sellers and residents, and sellers themselves. It is an efficient way for these emigrants to transfer to citizens.”[ 5] So the traditional food markets is a significance place to get employed and fixed in this city, and with HONGLIYUAN FOOD MARKET the dismantlement and geographical relocation of food markets, they lose the job, go to other areas like security guard or follow the relocation and continue to do grocery business, or even stand on the original location to be hawkers, being another trouble for city managers. And it’s often discovered that there are a lot of daily life conversations between buyers and sellers, and they are familiar with each other. What’s more, the aged people get together to do grocery shopping as a kind of social activity. Therefore it’s socially significant to remain and improve the present typology of food markets in Shenzhen, in mainland China.

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Technically, It is summarized that traditional markets are in bad architectural quality and not well designed and facilitated, for instance, there is no logistic area for food distribution, and layout of stalls is rigid, and homogeneous without strong identity. In terms of light condition, there is even no enough natural light to improve the appearance of food. It is also found that food market has a frequent working timeline in a day.

For the elders, they tend to go to food market in the early morning , following their timetable and chasing for the freshness of food, because fresh food is always distributed to these markets every morning. And for the young office workers, they usually go to food market after work in the evening indeed.These are all the HONGLIYUAN FOOD MARKET architectural issues to deal with to rebuild a better image of food market.

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2.2. Investigation of prevailing situation of Food E-commerce business

Food E-commerce business had been rising since 2012, from making 8.6% of total trade volume of China’s agricultural product market to 34.8% in 2018, and GMV of china’s fresh food E-Commerce grew from 3.6 billion yuan to 236.6 in 2018.[6]Looking into the system of Food E-commerce, it built up a classical running model of “front offline shop and back warehouse”, one kind of o2o models.

The investigation mainly focused on the physical offline shop working as a food showcase for people to know about and experience the food consumption. One of most popular and biggest brand is called “Hemaxiansheng”, and there are 13 shops in Shenzhen at the present. Taking Huangting shop as an example in Futian district, It is more like a supermarket in terms of scale. It provides the instant cooking service which traditional food market not. Once the consumers pick up their live and fresh seafood to be cooked there, and sit down to enjoy it with your friends or family. This service is the key point to make the offline shop quite popular and Food E-commerce to be easily acceptable.

Therefore It drew a conclusion that Food E-commerce offline shop is already a manifestation that food merchandise and food consumption is different from other online business, and it should be physical, OFFLINE SHOP PROTOTYPE touchable, and experiential. Therefore it cannot be simply replaced by online food shopping.

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2.3. Typology of food market: distributed market

Since there is lack of design that generates a DEVELOPMENTAL clear image ofSTAGE food market DEVELOPMENTAL DEVELOPMENTAL DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE STAGE STAGE in mainland China, a rigorous DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE out to build up a knowledge base for research on the typology of food market in the worldwide was carried designing a food market.

First looking into some European or American distributed market called farmers market that farmers exchange agricultural products with citizens in the urban park, and some Southeast Asia food markets locates on the river as floating market. To be concluded, these markets all take the advantage of the site, itself becomes a1.0 new community public space, a new experience of food merchandise closer to 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 2.02.0 2.0 2.0and creates 3.0 3.03.0 3.0 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.0 green space, and water.

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2.4. Typology of food market: market hall

Market hall is a widely constructed typology in the world,Europe, America, and in Asia. It is mainly designed with a big rood providing with a free and universal space under it, so that stalls as units of food merchandise space can be placed in various layouts creating various circulations and spatial configuration.

It’s discovered that some of them are hybridized with housing indifferent ways, for example, “Santa Catalina Market” in Barcelona, and “Markthal” in Rotterdam.

Hong Kong Municipal Service building as a special model was involved in the research as well. Looking into Shek Tong Tsui Civic Building, it simply stacks different community programs with food market on the ground flour by flour. It is critical that there is no beneficial spatial interaction between these programs. It’s an efficient collage and engineer solution indeed, in response to the specific context of Hong Kong in many TECHNICAL TECHNICALANALYSIS ANALYSIS ways.

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RENOVATION RENOVATION VERTICALIZATION VERTICALIZATION GENTRIFICATION FORMALIZATION FORMALIZATION But it is inspiring that governmentGENTRIFICATION put food market into community center as a significant social welfare facing with the urbanization. Therefore this model could be introduced into Shenzhen,and go beyond it in response to the initial question that what’s the future of traditional food market. Since there are many community centers built or on construction in Shenzhen but without food market program involved in it.

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3.Proposition

Inspired by the model of Hong Kong Municipal Service Building and farmers market sited in urban parks, eventually, the thesis focused on the proposition that creating a new type of food market integrated with community programs in the setting of urban parks, considering the specific context of Shenzhen. It is named as Food Park. It’s not only about food consumption but also sustainable consumption of nature. The three parts: food market, community programs and urban park work together as an organic system, for example, the food market experiences as the economic force, community activities as the social force, and the park as the ecological force. All three parts are combined together towards a new lifestyle as part of the larger recreational and amenity infrastructure.

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3.1. Community programs

As investigated in prevailing situation of traditional food market, in terms of working timetable of food market, there is a long period of time vacancy after the elders finish their grocery shopping to the evening when the young office workers get off the work. By adding the community programs into it, like exhibition and lectures happened in the daytime, gym working in the evening and weekends, and bars in the night time. It is clearly to see that these community activities and events filled up the vacancy of time, and the support of “food infrastructure” extends the time people spend in the building. Therefore the food market becomes a whole day running actively community center itself.

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3.2. Urban park

Initially it is simply inspired by the farmers’ market taking urban park as event space.

Looking into the green area as park in Shenzhen, it has the fifth largest area of public green space making up 45% of the total area.[7] But there is large part that not many people often visited, and not managed and programmed well.[8] Furthermore, there is not much of new land to be reclaimed. Therefore urban parks could work as an intermedia to distribute the food market, generating a new food network in the city.

By engaging the urban park as a public space, it enhance the participation, to be specific commercial value of food market.And park provide with a nice environment for food market. On the other hand, food market as the program injected could reactivate these inactive urban park. It’s a win-win situation indeed.

Cities With The Most Green Space. (2018). [image] Available at: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/cities-with-the-most-greenspace.html

Urban park and green area in Shenzhen mapping diagram

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4. Methodology

Food market has many quite fundamental principles in response to the commercial value and spatial value.

So the methodology is mainly based on the research of original food markets typology. The thesis aimed to create a systematical and generic methodology that has the potential to be a design manual of this new type of food market provided as a reference for the government to carry out.

4.1. Sectional methodology

Conceptually, how to combine the three parts spatially? It came up with the first attitude of showing respect towards the park as the site. It shouldn’t be a stiff and huge building simply standing in the park, because it will destroy the landscape of the park. So, first of all, The sectional methodology is to intertwine the three parts together following a series of spatial orders, such as using the landscape slopes to transform the building space both inside and outside, so the surface of park transfer into rooftop of food market, on another side, rooftop of market could be an extension of park return to park for the area occupied by the food market, and modify the topography of park generating an undulated rooftop surface creating different light conditions.

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4.2. Planar methodology

Based on the fundamental layout summarized in the research, because it constrains the way to combine with community programs, two global prototypes were developed to illustrate the possibility.

One is a linear market connecting a cluster of community programs on both sides of the market, coming from the original street market layout, so the visitors walking along the food market will see the pop-up community box clearly like tea house, on two sides of walls, and enter easily. The elders could do Tachi exercise and after that but some food by the way and back home, or after grocery shopping take a rest sitting on the extended deck of tea house, meeting with some old friends. Therefore people come for food or community activities could enhance participation in another activities through the clear and direct visual and spatial interactions. What’s more, several slots of markets can be grouped together in parallel, and some cuts inside were made into courtyards to create internal landscape communicated with park. Using the sectional methodology, the surface of park transforms into the courtyard.

Another one is based on the market hall layout, so the community programs, regarded as same as stall units could be inserted right inside the collective market plan. The visitors will capture a panoramic view of all stalls, and pop-up community boxes like exhibitions and book bars under the cover of a big roof.

The community box also differentiates from the stalls by the scale of space and facade. Because collective layout of market generates various circulations from different directions going through the leftover space by stalls, the community boxes can be entered from more than one side, even up to four sides(totally open), depending on the location of community programs in the market. In terms of the spatial interaction, the collective layout could obtain stronger one than linear layout.

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4.3. Adaptable local prototypes

As investigated the urban parks in Shenzhen, they have different conditions in terms of the area can be reclaimed to be food park site, the relation between urban area and park, and the topography, etc. To design a new and generic system of food network, Based on the fundamental global prototypes, the thesis developed them into several local prototypes. Four of them were pricked to have potential to be developed into different projects reacting to different sites.

The type one and two are based on the global prototype one. The first one is that community programs are set in-between several slots of market, so it creates a forced communication space between market and community space that let visitors see local people playing Tachi there when they cross from one market to another. In terms of relationship with urban area and park, these two are connected by the food park that people go through the rooftop, or courtyard, or market. It’s by-directional.

The type two is basically set along and above the boundary of park with the community programs on the ground floor, attracting people to go into the park when some part of boundary of community park is inactive or hidden behind buildings on the boundary without obvious entrance. So to summarize the strategy is to ope the boundary of community park and see it as a view background.

The third and fourth type are based on the global prototype two. The third prototype is designed with a setback terrace roof facing the park, and community programs grow vertically, penetrating the roof. People can go up to the rooftop through the community programs to have a cup of tea and enjoy the whole view of park, creating a nice food experience. Making cuts into multilevel courtyards connects indoor and outdoor space, and let the natural light penetrating into the market.

The last one is more about the internal interactions between the market and community programs or themselves depending on the proportion of community programs in the market. All the programs are under the cover of one roof. When there is many community programs grouped together, the multilevel platform and bridge system is designed to make it more efficient to approach different programs and create more conversation between these community spaces. So the food market is set on the ground floor as a event space and people participating in the community activities could see what happened through the atrium.

To draw the conclusion of these prototypes, it is a possibility exploration to set up a knowledge base for the next move and not constrained by only project on one site. The thesis promoted a system to redesign the food network in a city.

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4.3. Adaptable local prototypes

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4.4. hybridized stalls

The stalls can be seen as the ingredients to cook a food market. One one side, It was discovered that sellers are bored with no customers in time vacancy in the investigation of traditional food market in Shenzhen, on another side, it was also discovered that in some street food market like the one in Xiasha urban village, the shop does other business also put some fresh food to sell in front of shop. It’s can be seen as an spontaneous hybridization.

Inspired by the discovery, what if one owner of stall sell both wet or dry stuff? Or sell fresh food and provide with instant cooking service like Food E-commerce offline shop? Therefore they could do different business in different time. For example, in the early morning one can sell fresh food and ingredients, in the mid day, there is not many people come for fresh food, so one can shift to provide with instantly cooked food to the students or office workers nearby as community homemade food canteen.

To achieve the above commercial activities, the stall is standardized to be easily assembly and disassembly, but able to contain different business. It is listed that a stall can sell clothes and daily stuff(dry market), fresh food(wet market), cooked food（community canteen）, food truck(movable breakfast stall), and food box for Food E-commerce(like parcel box ). Whats’ more, two units of stall can be grouped for one owner as duplex stall, for instance, the fresh food stall hybridized with daily stuff stall, and fresh food stall combined with instant cooking stall, three units can be grouped into triplex stall.

Because Stall design is seen as a bottom-up process, it is encouraged for the owners to expand their business from single stall to duplex stall, even from food business to spontaneous community activity stall as well.

It is anticipated that they could build up a second floor space based on the light structure in the form of totally open platform or semi-open rentable mini house, etc. The open platform is for people to go upstairs and have food alone or together as a community party, after taking cooked from the ground floor. It’s feasible to hold an mini community gallery as well to increase people flow. The semi-open mini house is designed to hold small group party for those colleagues or old friends as public kitchen, provided with cooking facilities, so they can show off their cooking skills instead of simply booking a dinner in a restaurant. These mini house can be rent for running a community cooking workshop for the families or a teenager art class.

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For the sellers they get up early at 4-5am to transport the stuff, it is discovered that they tend to take a nap in the mid-day when there is not many customers. So a mini nap bar is designed to meet with the real demand of these sellers. And the leftover space of a stair to the first floor can be made use of into a book bar or sitting steps to hold a mini lecture or performance.

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5. Final project

The purpose to design a final project is not simply to end up the thesis but to test and apply the methodology developed in the above chapters. In the methodology exploration, the site is relatively generic illustrating the simplified condition. But finally a real site is much more complex, and architecture itself need to be materialized in a certain detail. And combination of specific community programs must respect for the demand of programs in terms of spatial scale, circulation and interface with food market.

5.1.Nantou old town community park as the site

The chosen site is the community park located in front of the Nantou old town, it used to be Qing Dynasty government location controlled Shenzhen and Hong Kong, which became a urban village now. It is the last Shenzhen and Hong Kong Biennale main exhibition site that focused on the topic about urban village. So there are some historical heritages: a long city wall along the north boundary of park, a history museum of Nantou old town, and a temple.

Analysing the site and context around, in terms of potential people flow circulation there is an existing metro station one block away in the south, so office workers live in urban village must go across along the main axis of village and middle of the park, an then highway to take metro. There are some tourists to visit the urban village and he community park as well. And there is a planned metro station on the southeast corner to be finished in 2022. There is an outdoor parking lot of low efficiency below the southeast of park. It is an interesting contrast that On another side of highway, most of buildings are residential tower. These two blocks are connected through three footbridges. So the food market could be a connector between emigrants and citizens physically and socially. On the east corner there is a traditional shopping mall, and on the west there is a middle school.

Following the methodology regarding the boundary of park as a key issue, looking into boundary of this park, on the north, is blocked by the city wall, on the south, there is only one entrance in the middle, the other two entrances on the east and west end of park is seldom known by people first time visiting this place.

In terms of topography of the park, There is one floor height difference form south end next to the highway to north end next to the city wall.

It is concluded that as a urban park, it's not open at all. looking at the southeast corner, there is a low efficiency parking lot, blocking a long interface that could be open, so the decision is to start from the car parking lot as an entry point of the project design.

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5.1.Nantou old town community park as the site

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5.2.Developing process

Looking at the sectional relationship, obviously, the car park cuts off the connection of park with urban interface, and blocks people from seeing the park on the street side. It is decided to bury down the carpark and create a sloped rooftop surface of food market to remerge and relink the broken surface of the park, mainly applied the local prototype three, in this way the market becomes an extension of park, introducing the people flow from south street side into park by walking slowly along the green slope. After that the southeast corner and northwest corner of big roof was Lifted up to generate entry space visually and spatially and in the middle of roof, the surface goes down to follow the topography and remain the original pathways in the park, not cutting the park into west and east part. In the middle, the internal space is predicted to be lack of natural light, therefore some cuts were made into courtyards bringing in the natural light. People walking along the original pathway could see the courtyard and go down into the market. The final step is inserting the lecture space, and gallery, tea house, gym, etc into the market based on the local demands.

Finally it achieved a diagrammatic and sectional concept that a series of inserted self-centralized community boxes on multiple levels, on the ground, in the middle, and penetrating the roof into the park, immersed in a fluid and free food market space. It articulated more about how the community program combine with the food market space.

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5.3.Community spaces

The circulation of community space and market were designed to be intertwined in some way.

For instance, the book bar is a significant notion that several circulations go through by the side of it, the path leading to outside of roof to original paths of the park, the steps connecting the southern part of market with northern part following the one-floor height difference, creating sitting steps where people could stay and sit down reading books next to the book bar. This is also the strategy to fuse the market space with community space, so there is no strong and physical boundary between them. The lecture bar and book bar are linked by a second floor platform, and the prior one was designed that the front stage side with a transparent interface is towards to the street side, in this way people come into market could see what is happening inside the lecture space to increase the visual interaction.

What’s more, the Lecture, and gym, gallery, book bar are all combined with a dining space intensely, for people to enjoy the food and drink, after attending a lecture, seeing an exhibition, etc. For example, outside the back of auditorium, a lecture bar is designed for people to have a drink and communicate with participators and lecturer as a social activity. Above the gallery there is a second floor dining space linked to the northwest entrance, people while eating or drinking could overlook the gallery. For the open stage outdoor on the roof, there is a sky bar next to it, people could have a drink when there is a performance during the food carnival.

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5.4.Storyboards

Finally, it becomes a building where many social activities and events happen , all groups of people could find their own life style in it. A series of storyboards containing several scenarios was made to illustrate and articulate that. And it’s strongly related to time.

For instance, the elders do exercise in the early morning at 7am and then go to market for grocery shopping at 9am, on the way they see the ongoing exhibition but not interested. They go to the most familiar stall and seller provides with freshest tomatoes. After that, they feel a little bit tired due to their age. They see a tea house open to the market side without facade towards the courtyard to capture a nice and peaceful view, there they sit down on the cushions and make a cup of tea to take a rest and meet with the old friends, talking about their daily life home and enjoying the park and courtyard view. Time flies, they find it’s been one hour since they sit there. They say goodbye and rush back home with fresh food and ingredients to make lunch for their grandson or children.

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5.4.Storyboards

A young office worker living in the Nantou urban village orders online in the company and after work at 6 pm rush to food park to finish the already cooked supper and to see a civic lecture about an activity to redesign the car park that we take for granted and make use of these space. The lecture is quite inspiring for him. After that he gets to know some new friends work in design, in the design salon with a bottle of beer when the lecture ends. After the pleasant talk he say goodbye to these friends at 9pm, and go to the gym to end up a busy day as usual.

SCENARIO B The Youngers B1 6PM

B2 6:10PM

B3 8:30PM

B4 21:00PM

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5.4.Storyboards

At the weekend, a family of three take part in the community farming as usual in the morning at 9am. The parents all cherish this opportunity to communicate with their children and for the children to touch the nature. At 11.30 am they bring the harvest to cook downstairs in public kitchen on the second floor of stalls in the food park, they eat together on one table, and the children really enjoy these organic food. They see the book bar standing in the market, so in the afternoon they decide to read some books with children, immersed in the sea of knowledge. Looking at the courtyard outside, they go upstairs to the rooftop of book bar. The while view of park is amazing, so they lay on the grassland, enjoying a nice picnic to end up this day...

SCENARIO C The Families C1 8PM

C2 12AM

C3 2PM

C4

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5PM

6.Conclusion and Reflection 6.1.Reflection In the final review, there are mainly three questions among the reviewers.

The first one is that the food park as a one-stop, new type of amenity and recreational center, what’s the difference between food park and shopping mall? The answer is that this is considered at first, the food park is an alternative typology against the present shopping mall typology. the stalls as the small property is different from a shining, branded shop in shopping mall. So the food park is basically encouraging the owner of small property to start their business, it responds to that food market provides the professions to those emigrants. As to community space, they are mainly non-profit programs. In one word, it should be a government dominated, emphasized community construction and healthy food. Food as a main media to build up a food-oriented community[9].

The second question is that in terms of architectural scale, and all of the stalls are covered with a 2 metersthick roof, does it really benefit the food experience? The initial idea was to create a piece of planted roof to return the area to the park. This area become a place where people could have food outdoor which is different from staying in a well decorated and protected room with strong cool airs. But because there is no rigorous calculation to estimate the number of stalls is needed in a community based on some formulas, the scale of final project is a little bit out of control.

6.2. Conclusion

Throughout the whole project, it is encouraged to see a kind of contradiction that there are both toppeddown(inserting the community programs) and bottomed-up(hybridizing stall types) design process. But it is also a factor making the whole design a little bit ambiguous. It is possible to choose one of them, either topped-down, or bottomed-up methodology and go to extreme as a thesis. In this way, it’s able to achieve a deeper thinking.

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Notes

1. Available at: https://theinitium.com/project/disappearing_markets/ 2. Available at: http://news.sina.com.cn/o/2018-05-25/doc-ihaysviy8663653.shtml 3. Available at: http://news.cntv.cn/2015/08/08/ARTI1439036174261713.shtml 4.5. Available at: https://36kr.com/p/5119644 6. Available at: http://www.iresearchchina.com/content/details7_23221.html 7. Available at: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/cities-with-the-most-greenspace.html 8. Available at: http://www.youthla.org/lajournal/201403-2/interpretation-of-greening-in-shenzhen/ 9. Available at: https://www.curbed.com/2018/5/10/17259776/what-is-food-oriented-development-kresge-foundation

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Acknowledgement

At last, I would like to express my great appreciation of all what Assistant Professor GAO Yan have taught to me in the whole semester. And thanks for all the best friends and classmates’ advice and encouragement, my family’s support and anyone’s help in the thesis.

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